Quotes About Socializing

I have more fun hanging out with my friends who are musicians and rock stars. You know politicians by and large are pretty stiff, pretty rehearsed.

I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.

I'm still no good at ball-and-stick games. If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke.

It slows down grocery shopping, because so many women at the store watch the show. I always end up talking to two or three people every time I go to Ralphs. It's fun.

I don't have a fondness for movies, which leaves me stranded when it comes to cocktail party chat, but I prefer language and books.

I guess there seems to be clubs opening up again, which is strange.

When I was 12 years old, I was hanging out with 23-year-olds. I was into cartoons and Pokemon, and they're all talking about girls. It was a strange way to grow up.

Sometimes I don't want to stand around a room full of strangers, chitchatting about nothing, so I'll come late to a party - and leave early. Though now that I'm saying this in a magazine, I'll probably never be invited to another one.

I love talking, even to strangers.

I've even been known to go to bed while my guests are still partying.

I was brought up in Jamaica when people had to occupy themselves and entertain each other.

I have never gone out on a real date nor has any guy asked me out on an official date.

I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia.

Weirdly enough - if I make enough money one day - I want to open a board game bar.

I was the sort of person who wouldn't just bring one friend home after school, I'd bring half a dozen.

I get energy from one-on-one conversations most often, and I lose energy from group conversations most often.

I don't watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

I'd be lying if I said it wasn't fun to go to these nights out, like the opening of a film or something, but I dip in and out of it.

I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

I've heard that almost all the people crowding around the big art openings barely look at the work on display and are just there to hobnob. Nothing wrong with that, except that none of them ever come back to look at the art - but they will tell everyone, and actually believe, that they have seen the exhibition.

I used to live in New York, and I know a number of people who have friends who work at galleries. I spent time hanging out with them, going to openings. It was a good way to do research, to hang out and to look at the art that was present.

To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.

Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you'll never be invited to a party.

And so the merry party began. It was one of those jolly, happy, bread-crumbling parties where you cough twice before you speak, and then decide not to say it after all.